20/3/14

Todays lesson ;

• Develop group choreography 
• Reflect on process and identify improvements 
• continue development of choreography 

Action plan for next lesson to start finding quotes aswell as start writing the ending of the piece when all my family have been killed throughout the tsunami and I am left with nothing at the end except for destroyed family and home.

My strengths so far for our group choreography is that their is team work being taken place at all times, thinking about each others abilities aswell as strong styles that everyone can interpret and take part in the choreography. Everyone is interpreting each others ideas and giving positive opinions from each. When finding music I interpreted a song that I thought everyone would like, we chose from a variety however the climax music is what I responded to choreograph to which is DVBB' Tsunami. eachy Choreographic principles lesson each member is always commited and on time, showing positive time- management for each lesson aswell as outside College times, due to self direct rehearsals that we have set up.

Individually I could develop through emotions showing alot more emotions when dancing due to the narrative about our lives being taken away, getting killed by a Tsunami. I also have chosen to be the speach at the end, therefore I need to create an emotional hitting piece for the end section of the dance, were all my family have been killed and I am just left on my own. I feel a poem or quote about Tsunamis would be effective with an emotional piece about my family, that would start with, ' Did we deserve this'. I need to keep upto date with all blogs, noting down all my research, aswell as pictures and any ongoing evidence in lesson and outside. As a group I feel we need to show a clear structure that needs to flow more into each section due to Kat suggesting it looks to choreographed, therefore I have taken this into consideration and need to develop the relationship between my emotions and the musicality. We also need to use much more devices due to only having, cannon, unison, and different transformations, this also includes different dynamics to show each clear element.

The Devices we have used so far are ;

• Contact
• motif Development
• Floor patterns
• Movement Components
• Falling, Turns
• Unison
• Cannon
• repetition of the motif
• Logical Sequences

Logical sequencing is used during the Tsunami piece, due to listening to the music first and then start to choreograph to the beat, due to it being up tempo and fast, there is alot of different movement componenets that  we can all interpret during this section.
Structure is a Narrative about a Tsunami, family of tourists go on holiday and their is a Tsunami.
Explaining a typical day when on holiday as a familu, kids playing on the beach while the Dad waiters on the mum, while shes catching the rays, until suddenly a tsunami appears, only for dad to see this and show the mother, until suddenly it comes in with the tydes very fast. Showing a clear explaination in the dance of before, during and after.

Action plan;
I need to find quotes and start to write an emotional monologue for the ending of the piece.  As a group we need to work effectively on the Climax/ chorus due to this being fast, fierce sharp with lifts, jumps, tricks and alot more fast movements with each individual in the group. I feel our piece is coming along greatly and looks effective, however we all need to start the climax aswell as everyone interpreting their ieas and emotions when dancing the piece.

19/3/14

Recapped on the choreography that we have interpreted already, in previous lessons. Therefore once we got the choreography, we then started to look into the music, due to different sounds needed to be mixed together.
The following music that we have all agreed on are;
Tsunami - dvbb

The impossible - soundtrack at the start, we thought this was a good relation to our dance due to the film being about a real life Tsunami.

Breaking news report will be used in connection with another song, due to the gentle song playing at the start to then break out to an interuption of the breaking news.

The other song we are using which will play at the start with the tabluexes being performed is called Shago ft Bosko - Buhu intro, this will start playing at 47 seconds, due to we start with the tabluexes.

Clear structure ;
The structure I am using is a Narrative, with a clear structure of each section.

Tabluexes 4 counts of 4, pause 4, develop 4 into movement.
Each individual has there own role, mine is being a mum, so during these tabluexes I am performing individual movements to respond to this.

we then go into choreography were the climax starts to happen, due to rob seeing the tsunami far out.
The choreography is a 4 counts of 8, this is in unsion, which then goes into partner work, to get onto the black boxes, the relation with myself and the music is very important due to the time management being clear with the lyrics, and the ending of the first choreography shows clear transformation to the next choreography which starts with 'Tsunami'.

Today I felt that our grouo piece is coming along very affectively due to the amount of ideas we all have, this is great due to never being stuck on a section to choreograph too. With the ideas flowing we have still all got a good level of concerntration and are not argueing. I feel our group has a strong relation and we are all communicting outside of the lesson, gathering ideas aswell as organising rehearsal space.

Action plan for next week
Due to last section is showing a clear understanding of what has happend in the long term due to the Tsunami, therefore I need to start to write a Monologue. The monologue needs to show alot of emotions to get the crowd ingrowsed in what has happend.
The start of the speach will be strong and emotional starting with, ' Why us.' ' Did we deserve this?'

10/3/14 showing motif to class

Today Chloe taught us retro grade this Is we're you will have a motif / combination and will perform this but then physically rewind this by performing it backwards. 

I found this very confusing and hard, however because we already had a count of 8 we then retrograded this, which was the start of out choreography Tsunami, however we all liked the outcome if this on how it looked and therefore we thought we would put this into our group choreography due to it looking affective.

Today I learnt alot physically and intellectually and now we have completed already 4 counts of 8 at the start of choreo. This was a positive lesson and I felt it effectively really helped me and my group and now I understand what Retrograde means.  

6/3/14

Today we started to respond to Kats task , making 2 motifs.

Today we all decided on the song 'tsunami' by dvbb

 

I started to choreograph the start of the choreography, I feel the music gets you into a positive adrenalin mood, and everyone agreed on the song therefore all felt this was a good song for the choreography aswell as the title matching with the natural disasters. 

This picture represents the start of the choreography re creating the development of the tableaux's, this will starts from the ending of the tableaux's when rob is pointing at the first sign of the tsunami. 

After that it goes into the start of this were we are all looking out for the tsunami, due to warning, 

Levels occur, motif development on the hand gestures, 

The dynamics are sharp, on time, fast, while different levels occur from each peer , I feel this looks really interesting due to the way the transformation will be, that we will be physically performing our hand gesture of looking, into the audience. 

During this performance, the picture is representing the gesture of ' see no evil' with this I found that this was a good emotional relationship due to the tsunami representing 'evil'. 

The dynamics for this are Sharp, fast, with great time - management 

In this picture the style is house, however the dynamic For this is trying to represent running away from the tsunami but we all get stuck, so repetition is created to create the narrative. There is further ongoing development for the choreography, yet the progress is physically coming along incredibly. 

4th march 2014

Today we started to look at music as a group as well as researching pictures o relate physically to a tsunami, these are the pictures that I really thought could develop physical movement and emotions towards the performance. 

From this picture this shows alot of physical damage that has happened due to a tsunami in Thailand, therefore from this picture it gave us alot of ideas expecially for props! 

Ideas ; 

Cardboard , boxes, rubbish, broken cars 

Giving the idea of in the middle of the section of choreography the stage management will move the black blocks were under Neath there will be rubbish , so during the section we will have black out when the tsunami hits during climax and they will spread the rubbish on the floor. 

 This picture represents alot due to the element being water aswell as the choreography being 'natural disasters'. 

Today we started motifs and choreography, we all chose songs that we liked but today we all gave a positive opinion on my song and all come to a conclusion for this song by ddvb 'tsunami' the beats link with a chaos atmosphere aswell as the title of the song links. 

We all worked efficiently today with alot of research, all ideas were put onto the pieces of paper and we finally came to a conclusion of a final structure for our choreography to natural disasters'. 

Styles have been linked in relation with the music that we have chose, all styles can be choreographed if we work strongly with the musicality due to no verbal/ lyrical context in the music. 

The photo above shows a clear structure of all the ideas currently put into prospectus of an overview of the order we are currently thinking of for our choreography. 

From this we all have a clear understanding of what needs to be physically choreographed, ongoing research. 

I feel already that the ideas are coming along postively and the relationship between myself and my peers are working strongly shareing ideas, no arguments and making sure each individual takes into account everyone's abilities. 

27/2/14

Today we started to create our group pieces ,myself , honour, Robbie , & Billie all researched into depth All the ideas we had came up with for the choreography . Today's lesson we got given the iPads to research elements this is what our research looked Like ; 

  The research did not stop then, it then got more intense & ideas started to physically develop, and during the end of the session we had spoken and already made a starting point for our structure e; 

We thought of our element being natural disasters and we researched all the news hitting big disasters that has happend around the world previous years , we then came to a starting structure of ; 

Tableaux's for the starting position that then transform into moving performance for a second and then into a developed motif ; here are the tableaux's ! 

Start; kids playing in the sand, while dad gets mum a drink , set on a beach ! 

  

 

Second one ; 

Dad notices something in the sea, mums looking, while kids are unaware 

Then will leak into 

Breaking news ; sound of the radio cutting in; horror 

This will then transfer into a dance movement telling a narrative , 

With an emotional ending; facts of how many people died that day aswell as an over voice of one of us saying what happend ' why did I survive ' we only came on a family holiday ' mentally scared' really hard hitting towards the audience. 

However this is only a rough guide and there will be alot of development , our team is commited and already researching independanty for next lesson, we all our researching music ideas aswell as facts and choreography, yet not working solo to create counts this will be performed in class to make sure everyone interacts & has a response

 I am excited for this choreography as it could look really well if everyone works as a team . 

Chloe's contemporary workshop

Today I was excited to learn contemporary due to furthering my development ready for university. 

I felt I naturally adapted towards the terminology and physicality towards today's lesson. However the group I was with was only putting half commitment into due to not ' liking' contemporary . However I was eager to correspond to the instructions : we got given a picture and then had to respond to the stimuli , this was earth and therefore in my group was rob, honour and shard. 

The structure that Chloe gave was hard but then clear at the end when it all falled into.a clear structure. 

Each section we had to come up with 4 counts of 8 this was contemporary based  yet we could interpret with dynamics to the stimuli. I had a clear concept of what was being asked and the structure was based clearly on motif development, therefore when our motif was performed it fell into the conclusion of a clear technical development. There was a few negatives like commitment and team work, due to not everyone taking part and not showing an interest due to it being contemporary, however throughout the dance industry further on, you then get into the mind of needing different styles and not everyone wants to see a typical street dance choreography, therefore should always want to learn. 

During the choreography the dynamics were ; sharp , fierce , intense , fast , sudden , dramatic due to telling a story that you are fighting for air & at the end you die. 

I really enjoyed the lesson and learnt alot of technique and termonology I had never heard of before.